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Booker T. Washington, American, 1856 - 1915

This penalty card is addressed to Dr. Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee, Alabama. The cover bears a Machine World's Panama-Pacific Exposition 1915, slogan cancel. The cancel is dated May 11, 1915 at San Francisco, California, just six months before Washington's death. The cover also bears a red post office hand stamp "International - O B."

Date: May 11, 1915
Type: Covers & Associated Letters
Medium: paper; ink
Department: NPM
Institution: National Postal Museum
Object number: npm_1984.0677.310

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